Traditional Folk Culture: Dynastic Continuity and Ethno-Artistic Education

Since ancient times, folk art culture has defined the norms of behavior in society, modelled relations between different generations, and contributed to the formation of values and ideals of the individual. The modern Russian state, built on the principle of national and cultural diversity, is aimed at the revival and preservation of each nation, cognition of its history and development of national and ethnocultural identity in today’s rapidly globalized world.

The article focuses on family traditions, which occupy a special place in the development of folk art culture and folk art. Often they contribute to the formation of professional dynasties, which ensure the succession in the family from generation to generation of the substantial component of the professional activity in which they are engaged. The purpose of the article, which actually opens a new direction in the interdisciplinary research of folk culture, ethnocultural education and creativity, is to reveal the contribution to their development of theorists and practitioners – representatives of various dynasties. Detailed biogra- phical materials about Olga Vladimirovna Kruglova and her niece Galina Lvovna Dain, whose contribution to the scientific folk art and cultural studies school can hardly be overestimated, are presented.

Revealing the inheritance of value qualities by representatives of family and clan, which can be seen in the Kruglov-Dain family and other dynasties, the authors of the article open unique pages of the formation of the folklore group and the Museum of Folk Culture at Moscow school No. 709, the Children’s Academy of Russian Culture functioning on the basis of Moscow school No. 1579, as well as the Tver branch of the A.N. Kosygin Russian State University, implementing educational programmes “Folk Art Culture” at different stages of the additional education system.

The conceptual ideas that are embodied in specific institutions that promote traditional folk culture and are connected with dynastic inheritance in the field of folk culture are considered. The information is presented about the family dynasties of S.A. and V.I. Sitnikovs, L.V. and A.S. Efimtsovs, Velichkins — Rezanovs, who laid the foundations of ethno-art education, organically combining museum pedagogy, scientific ethnographic expeditions, historical reconstructions of folk calendar holidays and rituals — and everything that follows the paradigm of systematic immersion of the younger generation in folk art culture.

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